Legal Aid’s Human Rights Protection unit provides free civil legal counsel and representation for low-income people. The unit assists victims of human trafficking who need civil legal assistance.

Human Trafficking Legal Assistance | Legal Aid of Western Missouri - Human Rights Protection Unit

Programs that provide legal assistance including consultation and representation for victims of human trafficking who have a case involving issues such as coercion into prostitution, forced marriage, domestic violence, bonded labor or other controlled situations against their will that fall within the jurisdiction of the courts in the United States. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by improper means, such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion, for an improper purpose, like forced or coerced labor, servitude, slavery or sexual exploitation.